Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without Authority. Against Berman was pitted Marine Major Charles Sevier, 35, the chief prosecuting officer, a veteran of Saipan, Tinian and Okinawa, who describes himself as "a plain, unspectacular guy trying to do a job." Sevier's case: Drill Instructor McKeon was not authorized to take Platoon 71 into the marshes; his action was therefore criminal, and the fact that he had been drinking made it worse. Said Sevier to newsmen: "I have the greatest sympathy for D.I.s. They have a terribly tough job. But damn it, we try to maintain excellent discipline without brutality...
During one of the court-martial intermissions, McKeon, in the hallway, walked up to a plain, sad-faced little woman. She was Mrs. Maggie Meeks of Savannah, mother of one of the drowned boots...
...plain woman devoid of jewelry or makeup, the U.S.S.R.'s top lady Communist, Ekaterina Furtseva, 46, an alternate member of the Soviet Party Presidium and wife of the Soviet Ambassador to Yugoslavia, arrived in London on her first trip to the West. Slated to be a fort night's guest of the British Inter-Parliamentary Union, Comrade Furtseva, accompanied by her daughter Svetlana, 14, overflowed with gratitude for her invitation, glowingly lauded the growing affinity between the U.S.S.R. and the country of "Newton, Shakespeare and Byron...
...felt no guilt complex-no, none at all," Harrison recalled last week, "but I did spend months afterwards going to psychiatrists, discussing the suicide with them, seeking the reasons for it. The plain fact is that Carole had a death wish...
...last week Allen, without Presley, was decisively beaten by Sullivan. The answer to the question was plain, and to no one plainer than to Ed Sullivan himself. Without batting an eye, Strategist Sullivan dropped his week-old scruples, signed the Pelvis for three appearances on his show at eight-week intervals, beginning in the fall. Sullivan will pay 21-year-old Presley the astronomical price of $50,000, or close to $17,000 per appearance-$2,000 more than he could have had him for if he had made up his mind a week earlier...